Kill Definition
- Present at the moment of triumph.
- to make a strong or aggressive effort to win or succeed
- present when the hunted animal is killed
- present at the end or climax of some action
- to make a strongly desirable impression
dressed to kill
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Kill
- in at
- go (in) for the kill
- in at the kill
- to kill
Origin of Kill
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From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell), or from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”) (compare Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”), see coll, cole). Compare also Middle Dutch killen, kellen (“to kill”), Middle Low German killen (“to ache strongly, to cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English killen perhaps from Old English cyllan gwelə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle Dutch kille via Dutch kil
From Wiktionary
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